bart_spoon

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by bart_spoon 7y ago
By this definition, any law destroys freedom. Every nation on the planet already operates on the premise that certain personal freedoms are regulated or restricted for the sake of societal harmony and progress. The "slippery slope&quot
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
No one is saying its coincidence. But is Europe without those same issues? No depression? No political polarization or social isolation? No news, no social media? The problems you describe aren't unique to the US. What is unique is the
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
On the contrary, its lazy to assume that gun control won't fix the issue, because it implicitly assumes the massive difference between the US and other nations in violent murders is due to some other, vague, unexplained societal malady
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
I'm not sure there is a "correct" way to do it. There's lots of variations that work differently for different people. But even at its simplest (fasting 16 hours, eating for 8) doesn't really require a ton of extra
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
No offense, but I mean this, earnestly: get over yourself. If you talk to a person, and the conversation is dull, they might be a boring person. If most of the people you talk to seem boring, then you are the boring person . You bemoan tha
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
Doesn't that support the original comment? Given increasing income inequality, wage stagnation, and the "desirable" jobs being clustered amongst the upper-middle and upper classes, and your suggestion that the loneliness epid
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by bart_spoon 7y ago
> Much as I find the hype around self-driving cars brain-dead, in this case, the car's AI was not at fault. Even if it could have made the decision to stop in time, the agency to act upon this decision was removed from it. The agenc